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Jarvis

Yesterday we talked about how the module that interacts with users can be constructed, today I’ll be talking about something more meaty and substantial, I call it the Conduit Module.

To accept open-ended query’s that transcend the simplistic search term based algorithms that Google and others employ we must shift towards a completely different, somewhat unused territory of programming, a conventional programmer’s worst nightmare, the self-modifying program.

Most programmers shy away from self-modifying code as the concept is generally only useful for a few specialized applications such as encryption/obfuscation and viruses and has the potentially disastrous potentiality of being unable to read/alter your own source code, in Jarvis’ case, self modifying code is required and will not be manipulated by humans once trained.

To teach a hierarchical neural network to learn how to program answer sets and the standard functional pieces that make-up a program (IE: for loops with counters, sorting algorithms, etc), we need to teach the network the basics of programming syntax (boundary conditions and limits of manipulation) and then train it by giving it a large number of interesting and unique challenges. In the end we will have a trained neural network that understands not only how to complete a certain task that’s requested of it, but also taking information that is output from the language module as an input telling it what it’s next task could be able to program its way into a solution for a large variety of problems, hence open-ended.

A process like this is complicated to imagine let alone create, however such a module also has the capability of altering the processing of other parts of Jarvis adapting them to perform better over time via testing and training, enabling another layer to be built on top of the language/conduit modules that enable behaviour and quasi-conciousness.

As you can imagine from a neural network based program as complicated as this, super computers will need to be used and storage of “genes” will need to placed in very large data storage locations. Tomorrow I will be discussing the centralized training and decentralized ownership model and how we can leverage decentralized currencies (bitcoins, altcoins, etc) to help perform the calculations Jarvis will need to be able to learn in a reasonable amount of time.